A group of a hundred and ninety Bulgarians, who spent the Christmas and New Year's holidays at the tsunami-hit Thai island of Phuket, returned safe and sound to Bulgaria on a charter flight Thursday morning.
Bulgarian state officials, representatives of the tourism business and their colleagues from Greece and Turkey are meeting Thursday to discuss partnership as part of a tourism "Golden Triangle."
The state aims to turn tourism industry into its top sector, Deputy Economy Minister Dimitar Hadzhinikolov said at the opening of the fourth edition of the country's major tourism forum "Bulgaria - Dream Area" (www.bulgariantourism.
The colourful snails, exhibited in open air in the centre of Sofia in the end of 2004, will be sold at an auction and the funds will be donated for children in need. Bulgarian artists turned 29 fiber-glass snails of weight 30 kg and height 1.
A new earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia, the Hong Kong geodesic Observatory reported Thursday.
The population of China, the world's most populous country, reached the 1.3 B mark on Thursday, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics calculations.
Bulgarian parliamentary delegation, lead by the Parliamentary Speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov arrives Thursday in Malaysia to deliver humanitarian aid to the tsunami-wrecked countries of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The delegation is to land first on the island of
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan asked governments for USD 977 M to lead a record relief effort for Asian tsunami victims, two weeks after the nature disaster shocked the world killing over 140,000 and leaving thousands others homeless.
The Christ-aged Georgi Todorov of varna was the man to deliver the cross from the sea waters this year, following the tradition on St. Jordan's Day.
Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka has talked the case of death sentenced foreign medics in Libya, while conferring with host Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli. Belka told journalists later he held out hope for a negotiated settlement in the case of five
The Armenian congregation in Bulgaria marked Wednesday night the Christmas Eve, traditionally celebrated on December 5. Armenians gather in the church for a holy service and then return to their homes to continue feasting throughout the Eve.
An unidentified virus modification has made more than 250 babies and small children fell ill and hopitalised in Sofia's Infection Hospital over the last month. One child died from the infection, doctors confirmed quoted by private Nova TV.
Bulgarian population has shrunk by 1.2 million people over the last 15 years, according to the latest demographic estimates quoted by the Minister without Portfolio Filiz Husmenova.
The President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge had been informed about the alleged bribery attempts by London businessmen long before Goran Takac contacted Ivan Slavkov, chief of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee. In a letter sent to Ro
The person responsible for the collapsing of the building in Sofia December 27 is still unknown, Sofia's Public Prosecutor Boyko Naidenov said. There were violations in the building process, Naidenov added, but it has not been yet decided against whom leg
The first solo CD of the Bulgarian 12-year-old pianist Asen Tanchev has been launched on the Bulgarian market.
At least 22 people were lightly hurt in a crash of two low-speed commuter trains at the Atocha station, notoriously known for the March 11 terrorist acts last year when nearly 200 people died. The accident occurred at 12:40 p.
A correspondent of the British "The Times" has found mass graves near a Buddhist temple in Thailand where over 10,000 bodies were buried secretly.
Romania, which is expected to become EU full member in 2007, is very likely to turn into a "shop window" and a "model" for the neighbour countries, said the new Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu.
The deadly Asian earthquake have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation shortening days by a fraction of a second, US scientists said, and caused the planet to wobble on its axis. According to Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsio
The helicopter carrying Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy to Antarctica has landed on a small island amid the ocean hampered to reach the ice continent because of bad weather, local Darik Radio informed. After the departure was delayed by seven h
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